WEBVTT - ASHLEY VERNER - Scrambled Eggs to Big Breaks 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:16.440 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:18.960 I'm your host, Colleen Wit and today we have very 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:25.320 special guest actress, writer, filmmaker, director. I didn't want to 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.080 add all those titles. I'm sorry. Ashley Versa is in 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:28.639 the building. 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.160 Hello, Hello, Hello, how are you doing? I'm good? 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.840 How are you good? I'm hungry? Really yeah, okay, even 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.680 though I did have like a bagel with lockspread. 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:38.080 You're hungry. 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:39.960 That was earlier. That was earlier. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:41.279 Okay, that's fair, that's fair. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.080 But yeah, semi hungry. Well, you had virtually one of 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.760 the cheapest dishes on the show, so it was very easy. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.080 It was just like walk in, walk out. Why don't 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.239 you tell our listeners and our audience what are you 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:54.520 gonna have me eating today? 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.040 I'm going to be having you eat some eggs. 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:01.120 Eggs, plain and simple like eggs, salt, and pepper. And 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.319 you said olive oil, which you know we're gonna find 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.360 out what it's like to eat eggs and olive oil today. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.160 You never did it. I don't think I've ever done it. 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.200 Okay, this is good. And the pepper is optional. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.000 The pepper is optional? Sure, okay, she didn't even ask 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:18.240 for Lorry's guys, No start passing judgment eggs, you know what, 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.600 Believe it or not, there are some black folks out 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.720 there that have never seen regular salt. I truly believe this. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.480 I have a lot of respect for Lorry's, though, so 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:26.600 I'm here for it. Yeah. 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.760 Yeah, Well, why don't you get in the kitchen start 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.760 cooking these eggs. What kind of eggs are you gonna 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:32.160 make today? 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:33.560 I'm just gonna make scrambled eggs. 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:35.160 Scrambled you can't miss it up? 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.399 Good? You can, but you can't. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:39.240 We don't judge these eggs. Now. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.320 How do you like your eggs? 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:44.560 I like them over medium? 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.360 Oh interesting? Okay, But I eat eggs. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:51.000 Any which hard? No? I I to running sometimes it 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.400 depends what if I want a gooy mish a guy. 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.360 You know, if we got ash browns, do it running. 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.840 You know, if it's just like some sausage and eggs, 0:01:58.880 --> 0:01:59.480 do it hard. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.920 You know we're gonna make some eggs. That's gonna be exciting. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.080 Go ahead, little nervous. 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.559 This simple dish. So I have a saying, the broker 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:11.200 the dish, the better the story. Oh okay. Now being 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:16.160 an actress, yeah, you know, give us some insight that 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:17.400 I'm sure. I'm sure it can't be. 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.760 You got it like it's getting, it's getting. It's the 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:20.960 stress is coming to me now. 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.360 Yeah, I just turned it off. 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.760 I know, I know later to go off. It needs 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:27.400 to go off. I was like, it's too much stress. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.000 So we're gonna start slow. So we're cracking eggs. I'm 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.720 gonna just bang it on the counter, go for it. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:33.560 Do we need a lesson in that? I don't think so. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:33.960 No. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.440 I've heard things though. People drop eggs. They drop them 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:37.880 on the counter to crack them perfectly. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.040 Really, Yeah, from like a low height like. 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:45.960 They do that. Let's see and apparently it cracks nice. Really, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:47.240 it's pretty nice. That's pretty nice. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.920 I just like to do a nice crack, real hard 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:51.960 on the side of the pot of. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.240 The Oh, you just like to It's that feels like 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.160 so like an emotional way of picking. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:56.720 I like it. 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.760 You know, we don't have a rag, but I'll just 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:00.560 see a napkin. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:02.959 Yeah you need a napkin. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:04.920 Yeah, she's a napkin and white my hands off. So 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.359 this is part of the broken aspect, is getting all 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:12.120 the you're hilarious, Yeah, it's it might be breaking. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.519 These eggs are like a dollar in egg. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.360 I'm cooking for eggs. We're cooking all the eggs. It's protein, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.480 it's proteins, fats, that's a whole meal. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.640 Back in the day, actually living on how much How 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:25.640 much was the eggs back in the. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.800 Day, I don't know, but they were super cheap because 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.560 I have a fond memory of the giant cart from 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.960 Costco of white eggs, white eggs. 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.720 Can you tell our listeners that little joke you made 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.520 about the brown eggs versus the white? 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:39.400 Oh, I don't know. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.320 I told you it was so funny, she said. She 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.520 had said, so like I forbid we eat a white 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.960 egg or so something like that. Just so true because 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.640 when Moore shopping, I said, there's white eggs and brown 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.760 eggs just gonna look like real cheap eggs. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.480 Everybody's freaking out about the eggs. It's getting real like 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.280 the soy and the eggs it's corn. You know. I 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:02.400 emailed some farms. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.720 No, you did it, I did. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.480 I emailed some farms because I was really curious about 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.800 this because everybody really started freaking out about the eggs. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.000 So I was like, okay, what's up. We want eggs 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.200 with no soy with no corn. So I emailed some 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.320 farms and the farm said, listen, we do our best, 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:21.680 but it's really impossible to our next to impossible to 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.800 grow what we need or not grow I mean their eggs. 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.159 I guess they're being birth or whatever whatever, who knows 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.800 what that's called. But to get what we need, get 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.400 the amount that we need, it's impossible to just feed 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.159 them things that don't include any corn or soy. So 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:41.000 they do do some corn and soy substitutions. Yeah, I 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:46.840 emo two farms. They were so nice and they responded 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:50.880 some eggs okay, I thought about it. So there's one 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.360 in San Diego, but I was just too far to 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:53.240 drive from LA. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.640 I have a girlfriend that goes online and she purchases 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.960 her eggs directly from the farms. And if you thought 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.359 seven dollars a carton or ten dollars a car was expensive, 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.960 good lord, she's spending like fifteen twenty dollars a carton. Yeah, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.080 she's like, but they real I'm like, you might as 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.719 well just get some chickens for that. You know. 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.240 It's it's sad because eggs used to be really affordable, 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.000 and I think you're just. 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.040 Not now what are you gonna do if? Like, well, 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:20.880 I guess hopefully you never have to go back in 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.880 time to the eggs. But could you imagine being overoil 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.080 broke right now? And then you're like, damn, I don't 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:26.840 know what I'm gonna eat? 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.160 Who would you eat for breakfast? What do you do? 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.160 What would I do with my daughter? Every day? 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.040 What do you do? Cru But what kind of cereal? 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.280 The well we buy the expensive on name brand fruity 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.640 pebbles and all that, but a good we don't buy 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.000 her to knockoffs. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.960 The goods, the good, fun tasting cereal. 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.520 When you grow up off the knockoffs, you never ever 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.039 ever want to go back. That's fair, you know. So 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.160 all right, take me back to what was going on 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.040 in this I need to survive on. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.040 Eggs, you know. I don't know. I think I have 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.440 just general fun memories of breakfast. I grew up in 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.920 a house where my dad used to make breakfast for 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:09.320 us on like Saturday mornings. So he'd make pancakes, apples, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.200 cinnamon like apples, like with cinnamon and sugar, like a whole, 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.159 like little compount kind of thing. He would do real apples, 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.360 yeahh he like slice them and everything. Yeah, in the morning. 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.520 I would just be like, he'd be like. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.680 Yeah, but what do you put them into pancakes? 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.760 No, so you put them on top, so like a 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.039 whole separate thing. He'd make like the apples and cinnamon 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:28.760 and sugar and make a whole thing. So you have 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.120 like pancakes, apples, bacon, and then we'd have eggs. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.880 And you came on this show and presented us with 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.279 just eggs. Got it. We had to live the full 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.719 broke experience. We couldn't live the daddy experience. 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.719 My parents weren't broke, okay, clearly, not clearly. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:45.680 So you come from a two parent house. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.080 I come from a two parent household where your daddy 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.440 makes good breakfast. My daddy is the cook in the house. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:52.320 Oh he's the cook. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:53.720 Yeah, he's the cook in the household. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.200 How can we only cooked on the weekends the. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.320 No, No, this is just like our weekend thing. So 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.320 Saturday mornings when I was a kid, he would make 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.120 like a fool like breakfast, like a full breakfast for us, 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.000 and we'd all like go downstairs and have breakfast, and 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.839 he'd like call up to us when breakfast was ready, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:08.440 and then we'd go downstairs. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.400 For breakfast and what was your mama doing during this sleeping? 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.880 Mom My mom worked really hard. They both worked really hard, 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.520 but she I think they had a really good I 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:21.240 think they had a really good balance in terms of like. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.480 Like there was never a discussion about it, was just 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:22.040 like no. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.600 Because I think, you know, my mom did like a 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.840 lot of like the pickups school, the school pickups and 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.480 like the after school activities because my dad couldn't do 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.320 it because of his job. And so I think like 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.400 also like cooking was like a way for him to 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.280 express his love for us too. So yeah, that's like 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.560 she'd be sleeping, we'd all he'd be like, breakfast is ready, 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.400 and we'd all like get up and go downstairs. It's 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.600 important you go downstairs right away though. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:46.200 Yeah that was Anyone who cooks feels that way. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.800 Yeah, dinner's ready, it's ready two minutes arrive. 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.640 Alrive, wash the hands, and it comes. Y. I can't 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.640 stand when I cook something and someone take thirty minutes 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.960 to get up off the couch, Like I just just mad. 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.720 Right, Yes I'm saying I'm not okay with it. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.760 So all right, so what's going on during this egg's ear? 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.320 Okay, so that's like my beginner of that. And then 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.679 I think, honestly, I think probably when I first moved 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.160 back to Los Angeles, this is before I decided I 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.760 wanted to be an actor. I moved to Los Angeles. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:23.160 I got a job at Kaiser Permanente, and I didn't 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:24.240 have any money. 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:25.920 What were you doing at Kaiser? 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.720 I worked in medical education at Kaiser Permanente on the 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.240 Kaiser on sunset, and I had no money, so I 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.080 used to buy I used to bit buy the soup 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.120 from the cafeteria with bread because it was super cheap, 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.760 like the I know it was cafeteria food, but whatever, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.960 it was super cheap and and yeah, I would. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.920 Eat evener even with a day job. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.360 You were still broke, Yeah, I mean I was. I 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.199 was like young, and I was like trying to figure 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.400 it out, and and I didn't. I mean, I moved here, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.240 so I didn't have money, like you know, when you first, 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.360 especially when you first get a job, you don't have 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.480 any money, Like you're like, can you please, just like, 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:01.120 can I get advance on the paycheck? Like that would 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.280 have been really great to get an advance of the paycheck. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.480 I would love to see you do an actual ask 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:07.880 on that. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.720 Yeah, yeah, that would have been I mean I did 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.000 ask for some things later and they were like maybe 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:16.280 not but and so that's I think that's probably like 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:17.840 when this really happened because I used to I used 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.599 to have an ex for breakfast. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.560 And during this stay job, you said you didn't know 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:24.920 you were going to be an access to No. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:26.319 I did not. I was still trying to figure out 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.560 what I wanted to do. I went to college, I did, 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:29.000 I did. 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.080 What did you go to college for? 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.400 I don't know what I went to college for? But 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:39.760 I did major in psychology. Why I went to college 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.720 is the strong There's so many questions, I guess because 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:43.520 you're supposed. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:44.880 To did you did you complete? 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:46.199 Yes? Yes, I gratus. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:48.480 Did you do it to make your parents happy? 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:50.720 No? I mean I think I always knew I would 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.640 go to college, but I was. I was so I 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.720 had been in the arts since from a very young age, 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:01.000 and I'm turn this off and I the artist is 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:05.360 really strange and challenging in a different way, and so 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.840 I think it was really hard to figure out where 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.880 I was gonna go. I was a musician for a 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.319 very long time, so what kind of musician violinist. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:14.480 You're a violinist. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:16.920 Yeah, for a really long time. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:18.400 Damn, I wish I would have done that. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.440 Okay, I think these eggs are done. Okay, are you 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:21.160 having violent? 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.080 Yes, I'm judging your eggs. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:24.079 Eggs. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:25.760 She cooked them. She was like folding. 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:26.840 You're judging my eggs. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:28.920 She was folding. I don't know if the inside is 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:29.920 gonna even be cooked. 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:31.880 It's gonna be a little runny. You said you like 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:32.560 it a little creamy. 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:34.080 I've never had you. 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.719 We see do you see these? No? You can see 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:39.880 them now. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.240 We judging a cooking. Do you cook now? 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:42.800 Yeah? 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:43.880 Cooking? 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.079 Okay, I really can cook. 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.000 Okay, we're gonna She didn't put salt or pepper. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:50.719 No, because you can't taste it if you put it 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.079 in that while you're cooking it. So you put it 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.760 in afterwards and you can do it on your own. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.360 How very much you like? Eggs are done? 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.520 I'm actually did you eat? 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:07.120 I had some turkey? Turkey and a baby bell. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:08.200 A baby bell. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.480 Yeah, you know me, those little cheese things. Yeah? Oh 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.280 my god, are you on an actress type diet? No? No, 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.120 I was just like pulling my life together this morning. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.560 All right, let's do a taste test. I added salt 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:28.480 and pepper. She just added salt. Guys, really good action. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.160 Thanks. I'd be okay if you didn't like them. I've 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.120 never actually had fluffy eggs like this. You know that's 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:36.960 not this fluffy. I will say, I think butter would 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.560 be better because it adds more to the flavor, as 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.439 you know, because you cooked with so much butter, which 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.839 is amazing. But I do think the technique is the fluffy. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.000 Do you know what's crazy is that I always think 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:50.560 you have to like overcook the eggs. This is pretty good. 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.120 I'm actually impressed with your I was judging. I was like, 0:11:54.200 --> 0:12:01.720 oh lord, I'm not eating these. Oh one, don't. I'm 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.080 in a breakfast at your house. This is the most 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.840 fluffiest restaurant style scrambled eggs I've had. Thank you. Yeah. 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:10.120 Oops, that's makes stuck. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.360 Yeah. So okay. So you're at g Eyser, you're working. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:15.080 Yeah? 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:16.559 Are you doing roommates? 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.800 No? So okay, okay. Yes. So I had a friend 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.839 of mine who let me live in her living room. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.200 I love LA. When I first moved there, I did 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.160 the same thing. I was living in someone's squatting in 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:30.600 the living room. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.080 Yeah, I was living there. She had like a twin 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.000 size bed in the living room. Yeah, I got a bed. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:35.440 I got a bed. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.360 She had a twin saxes bed in living room. And 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.679 she let me live there for like a while, Like 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:42.880 she didn't really actually like tell me I had to leave. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:47.560 But eventually I was in traffic coming home from Hollywood 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:52.160 to Westchester and it was Christmas time and it took 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.520 me like two hours to get home, and I was like, 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:55.200 I have to move. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:56.360 Where in LA? 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.160 Did she live Westchester by the airport. It shouldn't have 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:00.760 taken it long, but it was Christmas time, and you know, 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.000 especially like at this this is pre pandemic. So like 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.400 the traffic was just like remarkable. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.040 Did you drive during the pandemic? Wasn't it nice? So 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.280 like so everywhere where'd you go? 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.160 I was in New York at first, and then I 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.240 was in I lived in New York for a one time, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.079 and then I was in Hollywood, No, no, New York. 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.480 I was in New Orleans, and then I was in 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.000 South Carolina and then and then La. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:26.680 All during the pandemic. I know New York. I had 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.120 met like people were terrified in New York. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:29.920 Yeah, it was rough. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:34.040 They were like, there's dead buddies. It was not. They'd 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.679 be like pizza, drop it and drop it by the door, 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.119 you know. I like the trackway. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.480 We did the clapping at seven o'clock, like you go 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.520 to the window and you clap to feel like, you know, 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:46.280 like community and in unity. It was bad. It was 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.079 such a bad time. It was so bad. I had 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.080 COVID early on. My husband and I both had COVID 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.040 at the beginning. Dang, yeah, it was not people were 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.320 being in the afterwards. My friends were like, we we 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.839 didn't want to tell you how bad you guys look. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:04.800 We were deeply concerned. It was hard. It was so hard. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:06.960 You know what's fucked is that if you got COVID, 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.040 you had to live in like quarantine, live. 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.319 In a New York SIDS apartment. I didn't know how 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.960 small my apartment was until I moved to Los Angeles, 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:19.240 but it was incredibly small. I found myself standing on 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.880 like the fake fire escape balcony, like yelling to people. 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.280 I didn't know, just to say hi to people. I 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.160 just really like I need I'm not an extrovert, but 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.359 I really needed some alternate human. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:44.000 All right. So going back to Kaiser. You're chilling on 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.640 this twin match tw twin bed in this living room. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.080 You're working a day job. I'm guessing you're making probably 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.080 like ten dollars an hour at this point because you're 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:52.840 struggling still. 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.600 No, I made I made pretty good money. I will 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:56.840 say that it wasn't that bad. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:58.400 What were you spending your money on? 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:03.760 I mean I literally know, Okay, when I was when 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.480 I was first on the twin I was like just 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.960 like saving money to put money together. So so like 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.360 maybe I spent my probably you know, actually I think 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.720 I spent a lot of money on food, like ordering out. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.320 I think I ordered out a lot. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.600 And then in addition to your soup. 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.320 Yeah, yeah, that was real. I really ate that soup. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.200 And then maybe six months later, I think, or something 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.640 like that is when Christmas came, and then I was like, okay, 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.000 I'm going to move, and then I had money to 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.160 go and be like okay, great, I'm going to move 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:36.120 into my own apartment. And I think that's when real 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:44.360 struggle entered. I'm trying to remember the timeline. No, I 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.920 had a roommate. Oh my god, forgot about that. So 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:48.760 I had a roommate. I went and moved into another 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.240 apartment with a roommate. And then that was that was 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.880 so strange. But then around that timeframe is when I 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.920 was like I wanted to pursue I wanted to become 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.400 an actor on that time and what started that, I 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.040 was taking classes that you say like extension, and I 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.160 was really like interested in communication because I was just 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.720 it's such a nightmare when you're trying to figure out 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.360 what you want to do and there's a lot of 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.640 there's so many outside voices I think, just throughout your 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.280 whole life about what you're going to do career wise. 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.520 And this woman came in there. I saw her like 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.120 a month ago. Actually, this woman came in there who 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.640 is an actress, and it was like a mock interview 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.400 that they were trying to teach us, and she just 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.080 like told a little bit of her story and like 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.160 I don't know, the inside of my body just like 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.320 caught fire, and I was like, oh my god, I 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.040 gotta go talk to her. I have to go talk 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.160 to her. So like she left the class and I 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.680 like ran after her and I was like, hey, can 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.520 you tell me like how to do what you're doing? 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.000 Like what do I do? And that was kind of 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.440 the real like beginning of like that of me taking 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.440 action towards that, and then like the pursuit of acting 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:58.040 is incredibly expensive, so it's like you're taking classes, you 0:16:58.080 --> 0:16:59.760 get headshots, and you're just kind of trying to figure 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.440 the whole thing out. So I think, like I wasn't 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:07.280 making a lot of money, So yeah, I think that's 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.240 kind of where it was going a bit. Eventually. Eventually, 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:11.919 like a lot of my money that was making was 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.240 going to like me taking acting classes and that sort 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:14.520 of thing. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.600 And did you tell your family right away that that's 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:17.760 what you were going to pursue. 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.040 So I decided that I was going to pursue that, 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.639 and then I took I signed up for an intro 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:29.760 to Acting class. I took the class. The last class, 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.520 we did that scene from Love and Basketball where it's 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.000 Annihilathan and Alfre Witter in the kitchen when she's when 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.960 she's an adult, and there was a casting director in 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.240 there from CBS who I don't I have no idea 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.280